Syed Farook and the new world of emotional “triggers”

Warning: this article is an emotional trigger about emotional triggers…

by Jon Rappoport

December 5, 2015

(Jon has a new work of fiction at his other blog, Outside The Reality Machine. If you want to take a wild ride, read it.)

“Conceive of it this way. Far up in the sky you have people, individuals, who are inventing the fulfillment of their most profound desires, making them fact in the world, no matter what—and way down below, miles under the earth, you have other individuals who could be doing what the sky dwellers are, but they’ve bamboozled themselves into thinking they can’t. Instead, they think they’re trapped in every little response they might have to any old stimulus that comes along. Both groups of people are creative, but they’ve channeled their imaginations and creativity in vastly different ways. Waking up may be hard to do, but you either do or you don’t.” (Notes for Exit From The Matrix, Jon Rappoport)

You know, the existence of Xmas contributed to setting him off because his religious faith was of a different type. Xmas was a grave insult.

There will be people, believe it or not, who think this “analysis” has merit.

“Well, sure, I can see that. Given the nature of his faith, it’s understandable that he would have left the party in a disturbed state, gone home, put on military gear, picked up a few auto weapons, a ton of ammo, and pipe bombs, waited for his wife to do the same, and then, on the spur of the moment, returned to the building…he was triggered.”

“Triggered” is the new reality. It’s mainly for the young and naïve, especially those who are looking for a way to become known at colleges. “Wow, I can get a few minutes of attention if I say I was triggered. I’ll go for it. It’s easy. I don’t have to do anything. I don’t have to achieve anything. This is all about not achieving anything. It’s a perfect excuse. I’m paralyzed. And the reason is, let’s see, I wasn’t warned by my professor that he was going to discuss a subject that had triggers in it. Yeah, I like it.”

Apparently, there is no bottom for idiocy. You think you’ve seen the worst, but no.

“Individual [Harvard law] students often ask teachers not to include the law of rape on exams for fear that the material would cause them to perform less well. One teacher I know was recently asked by a student not to use the word “violate” in class—as in “Does this conduct violate the law?”—because the word was triggering. Some students have even suggested that rape law should not be taught because of its potential to cause distress.” (Jeannie Suk, The New Yorker, 12/15/14)

There are several underlying principles at work here. One is: If you give people an out, an excuse for not doing anything, a way to become a victim, a significant number who aren’t genuinely disabled in any way will reach for it and grab it.

And they’ll invent a back-story full of grievances. And traumas. And whatever it takes.

This is a form of art. Theater. It may be bad art and bad theater, but there it is.

“I wish I could write a play, a novel. Mostly, I wish I could create the future I really want. But it doesn’t look like I can. So I’ll do something different. I’ll cast myself in a play that’s already gaining steam. I’ll take on the role of victim. I’ll be the person who is in danger of being triggered every time I get out of bed in the morning. If I put everything I have into that role, I might garner a few good reviews.”

Freedom? A myth. Individual choice? Impossible. The human being? Merely a biological machine programmed to deliver x, y, or z, depending on the external provocations of the moment.

Individual power? No such thing.

This is the Pavlovian wet dream.

Since the dawn of time, leaders and the men behind and above the leaders have tried to install stimulus-response as the only form of human activity, and for obvious reasons.

Stimulus-response is the essence of mind control.

The perversely clever thing about promoting “triggering” as a valid and universal concern is: you will get people to program themselves. They’ll reach out for, and invent, any excuse to pretend they’re being negatively stimulated—and they’ll demand protection, which in the long run amounts to a fantasy about “safe spaces” they can inhabit—vacuums where no adverse content can set off little emotional time-bombs.

Another underlying principle at work: never consider raising up people so they can express and fulfill their deepest desires; no, instead take everyone to the bottom, where the incurably injured live. That’s the goal.

And if you can’t see the consequences of that program, you need a stirring wake-up call.

The Individual is endlessly creative. If, for whatever reason, he decides and believes he can’t consciously express that power in a way that meshes with his deep desires, he’ll invent his reality in a different direction—and that is his problem, it’s not someone else’s. The proof of the pudding? No one else can invent his desired reality for him. It’s his job. And it’s also, if he would see it, his joy.

This is not a matter of what’s fair or unfair, just or unjust. It’s a matter of fact.

The individual has freedom and power. The range of these capacities is endless.

They could be investigating, for example, where all the grant monies come from. I’m talking about grants for research on highly toxic medical drugs. I’m talking about pharma influencing the content of science courses and medical training. I’m talking about government money for research on toxic pesticides and genetic meddling. I’m talking about money for research on “brain mapping,” which is really a prelude to efforts to re-program brains and thus control them. I’m talking about money for research on better methods of mass surveillance. And so forth and so on.

Create that drama. Create the drama of discovering the truth about what colleges are really doing, and expose it, and put the sold-out researchers in the glare of the spotlight for the right reasons.

Or, dilly dally about “triggering” and have that party instead.

There certain incontrovertible facts. They have nothing to with what already exists or what did exist or what will exist. They have to do with the individual and his power to imagine and create reality. He can fathom and access this power and consciously use it to achieve his own purposes, or he can subvert those purposes and instead invent himself into a dead-end, where the substance of his life appears to be entirely under the control of external forces, with no hope available.

Those are the immortal cards and that is the immortal hand dealt on the table. Play them as you will.

Jon Rappoport

The author of three explosive collections, THE MATRIX REVEALED, EXIT FROM THE MATRIX, and POWER OUTSIDE THE MATRIX, Jon was a candidate for a US Congressional seat in the 29th District of California. He maintains a consulting practice for private clients, the purpose of which is the expansion of personal creative power. Nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, he has worked as an investigative reporter for 30 years, writing articles on politics, medicine, and health for CBS Healthwatch, LA Weekly, Spin Magazine, Stern, and other newspapers and magazines in the US and Europe. Jon has delivered lectures and seminars on global politics, health, logic, and creative power to audiences around the world. You can sign up for his free NoMoreFakeNews emails here or his free OutsideTheRealityMachine emails here.

9 comments on “Syed Farook and the new world of emotional “triggers””

DAMN straight and to the point as well! Your educational and intellectual acumen is truly refreshing to see! Thank you for your precise perspective on this socially contagious and debilitating trend Sir!

There ARE triggers in the movies and music that are CAUSING the mass shootings. They are hypnotic commands. Some are right in the lyrics and others are hidden subliminally. SO these kids obsession with “triggers” is not based on nothing . We have all been social engineered.

THEY are being made GAY by social engineering. AND it is true that they are IN a hypnotic state by the psych drugs which do that to people, deliberately.

The Columbine shooters were ON psych drugs AND took a DEATH ED Class One of the shooters Said he had nightmares about shooting people after taking this class. They were hypnotized by the drugs and programmed by the class. THey were set up and it was a beta test for all the following mass shootings. In the early 90s many schools had “death ed” and the suicide rate shot up – by design. The social engineers want to depopulate the planet by 90% and are using movies, music, education, poisoned water and food, and wars to do it (And healthcare – the vaccines have poison).
Jared Loughner the Tucson shooter had said in his video that the “government manipulates through grammar” I believe he was referring to ‘trigger words” and also the re-definition of words to manipulate people which has been going on a long time.
I am the tail end of the boomers – we were told FREE LOVE was love when it was just FREE SEX to manipulate us to use sex for recreation instead of procreation. NOW the kids are being told ANAL sex is SEX when it is abuse – the bible calls it self- abuse – to get them to engage in it as a form of sex. stage 2 of social engineering to separate sex from love and marriage, to break down family structure so the state can raise kids a la Brave New World, which is the end goal. Huxley was a social engineering insider and his book is an Illuminati blueprint. The illuminati are devil worshippers.

thnx a lot Jon…I really do apprciate all that u do but it wud be extremely helpful to me (and maybe a whole lot of other seniors like myself) if u cud provide an audio or an audio/ video clip for your more important articles since many of us have/are becoming reading handicapped at our age.

I am triggered by the sight/smell of food
I am triggered by hearing music
I am triggered by hate and blame
I am triggered by love and wonder where it is?
I am triggered when the gods speak
Wot am I not triggered by?
Alas, not much…….

True..smile, ‘Sentimentality’ being one emotion that triggers off ‘slush’ 🙂
Emotional manipulation leads to ‘patriotism ‘Well, we will not go into religion…too big a subject.Alas,emotional manipulation predominates as so too the media .A vast subject…more education needed..teaching kids how to think, teaching kids to observe their emotions…etc still we are mostly unaware what we are being manipulated toward…2.2 kids 2.2 cars and not to forget the Hollywood dream…thanx